Margaret Atwood tickets are sold out!

Literary legend Margaret Atwood visits NC State this fall to speak about the intersections of technology and humanity. Tickets have already sold out for "An Evening with Margaret Atwood" on Friday, Nov. 15 from 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. in the Talley Student Union’s State Ballroom.

In more than 50 novels, Atwood’s writing has proved as timeless as it is prophetic. She has been described as our most important living author. For instance, The Handmaid’s Tale—currently an Emmy-award winning Hulu television series—feels as relevant today as it was when it was published in 1985. 

Atwood’s long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale was published earlier this month. The Testaments has rocketed to the top of best-seller lists and has already garnered her another Booker Prize nomination. Read reviews of The Testaments in The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Atwood has always possessed the uncanny ability to predict the future of technologies and society, and nowhere is that more apparent than in her 2003 book Oryx and Crake covering a host of issues including genetic manipulation, corporate domination, and global pandemics.

Sharing her thoughts on the intersections of technology and humanity, Atwood challenges audiences to think critically and engage with the world around them from different angles, employing her expertise as a writer to the spoken word in a candid, relatable way.

Atwood’s visit is part of the multi-site, art-science exhibition Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design and the digital and physical exhibit spaces in the Libraries.

The event also serves as the Friends of the Library Fall Reception and is presented by the Friends of the Library and the Genetic Engineering and Society Center with support from the NC State University Libraries, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Sciences Spirit of Science Illumination Fund.